Sentence Composing Semi-Colons

The following sentence-composing exercises were done in class and will be due in Criterion by Monday 6/13/16 by midnight and is worth 25 points.

1. She did not try / to make her meals nauseating; / she simply didn’t know how not to.

2. The sound was like the scream / of a rabbit caught / in an owl’s talons ; / my flesh crawled.

3. Her father’s penmanship was small, precise, slightly feminine; / her mother’s had been a jumble / of capital and lowercase.

4. She said she had some luggage / and her children were sick; / they were still vomiting from time to time, / and so, / for that matter, / was she.

5. A man who was wise / found that his wisdom was needed / in every camp; / a man who was a fool / could not change his folly / with his world.

6. There would be a pageant / for the grown ups; / there would be apple-bobbing, / taffy-pulling, pinning the tail on the donkey / for the children.

7. With the force of a bullet, / the wad of chewing gum shot out / of the keyhole and / straight down Peeve’s left nostril; / he whirled upright / and zoomed away, cursing.

8. She had a rare culinary gift; / she could skin a beef tongue, / dress a hen, / make twenty empanadas without drawing a breath, / and spend hours on end shelling beans.

9. Percival, / the smallest boy on the island, / was mouse-colored / and had not been very attractive / even to his mother;  / Johnny, / his brother, / was well built, / with fair hair and a natural belligerence.

As an extra credit option, you may share a 10th sentence from a science fiction novel or other choice novel that contains a semi-colon and includes the author, title, and page number where the sentence was found.